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TALENT PROJECT

TV series 12x11’, in concept
GENRE: Kids & Family Entertainment
TARGET GROUP: 6–9 years
DIRECTOR: Maria Schmidt
STORYBOARDER: Maria Schmidt
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2D
TOTAL BUDGET: n/s
IN PLACE: < 20%

The little fox Hugo has a happy but quite unusual family: his parents are geese. They live a harmonious family life until one day Hugo witnesses a grown fox eating a goose. This results in the most challenging and difficult situation our little patchwork family has ever had to face, before Hugo ultimately discovers who he really is and that family is a feeling and not a matter of heritage.

“Family Bonds” is a project that is very close to our hearts, since the topic of being different in this world is currently developing in an alarming direction. With this heart-warming story about the true meaning of family, we aim to make people stop looking at all our differences and instead see what connects us all: love. It might sound a little cheesy, but we strongly believe that this is a message that is worth passing on to the next generation, so that one day this world might be a peaceful place filled with understanding for everyone. Our illustrative and playful animation style is reminiscent of children’s books and will appeal to kids and parents alike. We would like to develop the concept of our already produced short film into a series that presents different types of families and how they cope with difficulties and criticism – both internally and externally.

Maria Schmidt, Director / Nina Schwarz, Producer

Concept / Bible, Designs

broadcasters and co-production partners who see the potential in “Family Bonds” to become a perfect example for today’s many variations of what makes a family. Together, we would love to develop a kids’ series that will be emotionally educational rather than just explanatory.

TALENT PROJECT

Short film 25'/TV series 5x5’, in concept
GENRE: Documentary
TARGET GROUP: young adults, adults
DIRECTOR: Maria Virginia Moratti 
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2d animation, live action, rotoscoping
TOTAL BUDGET: n/s
IN PLACE: < 20%

SHORT SYNOPSIS The grandparents' bedroom, with simple clay walls. The clothes hanging on the wall and their bright colours. The long way to school. A red thread to hold on while walking alongside the delta of the River Niger. The alphabet loudly sung together with classmates. These are memories. Eno's memories, a Nigerian woman. The happiest memories she chose to bring with her from her homeland to Italy, where now she's living. Eno is one of the five characters of FILI - Threads. The animated documentary tells the happy memories linked to the countries that five immigrants have left behind to get to Italy. Moments firmly hang on to disant countries, hidden in the memory of those who lived them. These memories allow to see protagonists, not only masses and crowds. Single prtraits of persons, not anonymous shots of migration flows.

AUDIOVISUAL APPROACH The documentary uses 2d animation and live action footages. The style the animations refer to are the carnet de voyage/travel diaries.Each encounter is set in the place that now the protagonists call home, whether it's a house, a room or a tent in a reception center for migrants, a kitchen in a restaurant, a carpet in a mosque or an hotel room. Only the protagonists' voices guide the animations and the sound design is very realistic. 

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Stefilm (www.stefilm.it) is one of the most prominent documentary film and television series producers in Italy.

With FILI - Threads by Maria Virginia Moratti, a project of documentary animation, Stefilm opens for the first time to pure animation.

Track Record, Treatments, Scripts, Designs, Trailer

International co-producers for pre-production and production. We are also seeking feedback and advice to help us understand the project’s potential and financial requirements.

TALENT PROJECT

TV series 13x22’, in concept
GENRE: Fantasy Adventure
TARGET GROUP: 6–10 years
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2D
TOTAL BUDGET: n/s
IN PLACE: < 20%
PARTNERS: GraFFiti Creative Srl (IT)

Teo the orphan is found under a tree near the shore of San Peter Island. When he sneaks into the house of Agata, an alleged witch, everything changes: he is catapulted into a parallel world where folktales are real. Teo joins the crazy league of the Taleraiders, searchers of magical objects that must be captured from the evil BauBau, who is hungry for human fear. Together with his new friends in the league, and backed by the power of the Four Winds, Teo explores one hundred seas of tales, battling to save the day and find out who he really is. There is a world out there waiting to be explored. A world that lies beneath the stones of an ancient castle, on the top of a snowy mountain or at the bottom of a shining sea. It is a world of beautiful and scary folktales that traverse our landscapes like invisible roots.

“Taleraiders” is fun and filled with the thrill of adventure; it mirrors the sensation we’ve all felt spending a summer day hunting for pixies and mysteries, or wondered at each step of the way on the journey to growing up. “Taleraiders” features real places that become magical thresholds for every kid brave enough to cross them. It is being developed as a frame for different contexts and media, involving partnerships with European cultural institutions in the creation of thematic digital routes and apps, with all the possibilities given by the link to real, existing places. “Taleraiders” aims to be the fireplace around which we will tell tales of the differences that bond us.

Michele Assante, Scriptwriter

Concept / Bible, Designs

co-producers and collaborators from Europe and beyond to bring as much diversity as possible to our adventures. Most importantly, we are looking for valuable feedback on “Taleraiders”.